Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Hesletine ) , the present Secretary of State for the Environment , laid out how he saw the development of local government . |
2 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
3 | Then you would know when you saw the chap in the 1984 Cortina he was the company 's worst driver . |
4 | It was only when they saw the picture on the cover of a magazine — on their 38th wedding anniversary — that they realised their kiss had been captured forever . |
5 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |
6 | He said that he got back by one , but the old baker claims that it was after two when he saw the van in Prospect Terrace . |
7 | Ruskin Spear when he saw The Death of Nelson remarked that Minton had painted the deck like an upright fence . |
8 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |